Podcast appearances and mentions of hugo macdonald

Luca's guest this month is Hugo Macdonald, creative consultant and founder of Bard, a boutique and creative space showcasing Scottish craftsmanship. Together they discuss Hugo's latest creative endeavor and elevating daily rituals through craft and design.

In Radical Acts, craft is presented as a bridge between our roots and our future.Hugo Macdonald, curatorRadical Acts: Why Craft Matters is about craft with social and environmental purpose. We tend to define craft as a process or a physical object; it is also time-honoured knowledge and a force for positive impact. Our second Harewood Biennial showcases 15 people and projects in the house and grounds that demonstrate how craft can be a radical act.The word ‘radical' comes from the Latin ‘radix' meaning ‘root'. In Radical Acts, craft is presented as a bridge between our roots and our future. Each participant tackles an urgent issue of our modern lives with a resourceful attitude and hopeful intent. Craft addresses human connection, social equality and representation, climate change and conservation, material potential and natural resources, land use and landfill.These are projects that seek to restore the equilibrium of our relationships with each other, with our habits and our habitat. Our biennial celebrates radical acts of resourcefulness, respect, restoration, regeneration and repair. There is much that we can learn from craft knowledge to help us build a healthier future with healthier systems, as individuals, communities and societies.Our ambition with the Harewood Biennial is to introduce the many ways in which craft has real value to contemporary life. Radical Acts is also a call to arms; the show is filled with optimistic messages to inspire and empower people to think and act with purpose in their own daily lives. Every person has the power to make positive change and everybody counts. It is a radical act to take responsibility for our lifestyles and our livelihoods, and to discover that our future is in our hands.Hugo MacdonaldCurator

I catch up with the curator Hugo MacDonald as the Harewood Biennial opens at the Harewood House with an exhibition "Useful/Beautiful: Why Craft Matters". In our conversation, we chat about craft's identity crisis, its relationship with design, William Morris and the cognitive power between the hand and the mind as a healing process.   Presented by Justyna Green Music by James Green

Hugo Macdonald, curator of Useful/Beautiful: Why Craft Matters, grew up in a small, remote hotel on the Isle of Skye in Scotland. He worked at Wallpaper* and Monocle, where, as design editor, he oversaw all architecture and design content in the magazine, newspapers, books and on film.

“Craft.” For a long time, the word has had been pushed to the periphery of the design world, disregarded for its perceived quaintness. But, thanks in part to the efforts of crafts organisations, that has very much been changing. “Craft” now has become associated not with homeliness, but with the highest forms of the discipline – creeping its way into the lexicon of luxury fashion, and architecture too. In the Pod today are two people who’re are helping the public engage with craft’s new identity. Hugo MacDonald, curator of Useful/Beautiful: Why Craft Matters at the inaugural Harewood Biennial speaks with the Craft Council's creative director, Natalie Melton.

Billions of people live in cities but how many of us actually *live* in our city? Hugo Macdonald, author of the book *How to Live in the City*, takes us to New York, Tokyo and London with tips noting down how to thrive in these urban hubs using pens from Cross's new city-inspired Peerless 125 Special-Edition Collection, inspired by iconic works of architecture; London's Elizabeth Tower, New York's Chrysler Building, and Tokyo's Skytree Tower.

Billions of people live in cities but how many of us actually *live* in our city? Hugo Macdonald, author of the book *How to Live in the City*, takes us to New York, Tokyo and London with tips noting down how to thrive in these urban hubs using pens from Cross's new city-inspired Peerless 125 Special-Edition Collection, inspired by iconic works of architecture; London's Elizabeth Tower, New York's Chrysler Building, and Tokyo's Skytree Tower.